image: This shows researchers sampling cores of deep ocean sediment on board Joides Resolution. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 10, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Henry Elderfield at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK, and colleagues was titled, “Evolution of Ocean Temperature and Ice Volume Through the Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition.” view more
Credit: [Photograph courtesy of John Beck, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program US Implementing Organiztion]